Matt
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Podcast Appearances
It stung because it was accurate.
Whatever it was, I said, it knew our names, it took something, it likes names, he said.
Names are hooks.
You ever go fishing?
Yeah, I said.
You can sit there all day with a line in the water, but if you don't have a hook, you ain't catching anything.
That thing, it uses names like hooks, throws them out, sees who bites.
That's why you don't answer when it calls.
Not ever.
He sipped his coffee.
Sometimes, he added, you don't even have to answer.
Sometimes it just needs you to listen.
A cold, dead feeling opened up in my stomach.
I heard it, I said.
But I didn't talk back.
Not, not after the first time.
Does that matter?
He looked at me for a long time.
Maybe, he said.
Maybe not.